Recent content by BayouRadioAmplifier

- For only 16 dollars and walking into a Hobby Lobby store a few months back, I got these. Never tried the built in LED yet. And I have a metal clamp lamp to shine the light. Light Up Magnifying Headband .

good find! 20 bucks! I have a 142 here that some old guy gave me to look at. I got it cleaned up and it works. I don't know where the owner is, so guess it's mine. but when the volume is turned down, squelch is on, I hear a rushing noise out of the speaker. I have not looked into this...

yes, I am turning down repair jobs. too much effort and time to get them working after all the other guys worked on them before me. and not enough "compensation" to me. I first must find their mistakes. bad soldering. solder bridges across circuit board traces. components installed...

Yes, good one! when I was a kid in the 70's, learning code for the Novice Ticket. I would listen in the Novice Bands and it was cool to decode it. I think around 7040 kHz you can listen for slow code guys there nowadays. you can listen for the aeronautical beacons for slow code ID. most...

I just had a Cobra 1000 that has a similar main board in it with your same problem, then the RF out quit completely. the problem was a burnt-out resistor R49 that goes in line with the modulated voltage to the RF driver. But I see on the 29's it does not have that resistor there. and I just...

"problem turned out to be counterfeit IRF520 transistors" yes, only buy from authorized dealers of these parts. Easy to do here in the U.S.A. (Mouser, Digi Key) I got counterfeit IRF510's and MPF102's from that place in Florida that went out of business. (MPJA ?) it was cheap, took a...

I just took a look at this "mod." hmmm, wonder how many actually got it to work. ? with the driver TR8 changed to a 2166 - maybe not enough RF drive to TR8, so tune up L14. and L13 for maximum to drive TR7. and L10 for output level. so watch the RF output on the meter, and tune up, starting...

never mind. I assumed this 142GTL main board is the same as a 2000. I opened it up. this 142 is from an old guy and said it was in his closet for many years. it looks like it was never opened up before. it still has/had the paper gasket at the front of the cover, and it is all decomposed...

I listened to your audio problem a few times. the radios I had had more random loud crackling noise, sounding like listening to 75 meter SSB on a summer night with thunderstorms around. it was obvious the TA7222 was bad, also knowing that the radios came from noisy trucks where the volume was...

hmmm. yes, I had some radios with that problem. the audio amp IC TA7222 goes bad. all that crackly noise out the speaker. more tests: put in PA mode and connect a speaker to the "PA SP" jack. listen for the noise. - Transmit in AM mode and listen on another radio. key up, MIC gain...

"they move the rig near Belmont , LA. We've been working in Coushatta LA. Got to experience my first earthquake there. Strange sensation when the ground starts shaking you and everything around you" OK, you are working up north west from here. In "Redneck Louisiana" as it is known. I am way...

yeah, I get cats n dogs showing up at my house sometimes. somebody told me that "pets find you, you don't find them" So I have taken a few animals in over the years. Or I find a home for them, since I live on a roadway with traffic, and in the back yard is a bayou with alligators and water...

. Yes, back then. as young kids in that area. We used to ride our bikes to that Grauman's Chinese Theatre and watch people get their plastic molded souvenir from that machine outside. Ride over to The La Brea Tarpits, and we went to an inside display, and were throwing rocks and sticks into the...

oooh yeah! I remember all that. two of us on one bike sometimes. the banana seats had sparkle reflectors in the design. and those type of handlebars were funny at the time. and a five-speed stick shift on a bicycle, how revolutionary! And go ride around on a warm Los Angeles Saturday...

. yeah! I remember growing up in Los Angeles late 60's to early 70's. Tonka trucks built tuff. They had that "steel" symbol on them. We trashed on them in a dirt spot in the back yard. hard to break them. Also remember them Schwinn bicycles, the Stingray, with a "sissy bar" and that big flat...